Is it Necessary to Love Your Neighbours? Living with Radical Diversities and the Right to be Oneself

This event is the 3rd UniSA Nelson Mandela Lecture and Adelaide Festival Centre's OzAsia Festival Keynote Address and will be delivered by Dr Ashis Nandy, Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India Prominent International Sociologist and Political Scientist.

The purpose of this lecture is to promote the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals and the value of truth and reconciliation in life and public affairs.

Both in academic circles and in the global middle class culture, international relations is a play of national interest, security, international trade and other such lofty, tangible forces with which the first pages of serious newspapers and university departments seem permanently concerned. Yet, even ordinary citizens seem aware that underlying these clearly identifiable, real-life forces there are less tangible subjectivities in the form of crosscutting perceptions, sentiments, images and fantasies that constitute the underside of international relations. This lecture deals with this underside; it emphasizes the web of subjectivities in which relationship among countries, communities and what some would call nations take shape.

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